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The common graph that represents a straight (diagonal) line is y=x. A horizontal line doesn't have its own common graph because it's a rendition of the diagonal line. All you have to do is change the slope to 0.

In the equation y=x, the slope is 1 (y=1x). Because the slope is one, the line goes up by ones (kind of like a staircase) on the graph.

If you change the 1 to a 0, you get a horizontal line because they don't have a slope.

So, the equation for a horizontal line would really be y=0x.

If you have something that looks like this: y=0x+7, then it's just a horizontal line shifted up so that it goes through 7 on the y-axis. Simplified, it would just be y=7.

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